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Officials at New Mexico Highlands University are scrambling to limit the impact to students from the loss of a $572,000 federal grant that the university had been using to provide support services to low-income and first-generation students.

The funding loss will also result in the loss of eight full-time positions at Highlands.

The university’s regents were briefed on the situation during their meeting last Friday.

Get your boots ready, folks! It’s time for the Cowboys Reunion Centennial Celebration. After a 48-year hiatus, the reunion will once again take center stage in Las Vegas, thanks to Ron and Elaine Querry.

As in years past, festivities will include a parade and a rodeo. This year’s reunion celebrates the 100th anniversary of the first Cowboys Reunion. The last Cowboys Reunion was held in 1967.

It wasn’t quite a 52-year run because the reunions were put on hold during the Great Depression.

8.1.15
SATURDAY
10 a.m.
Cowboys Reunion Centennial Celebration Parade will begin at the Railroad Roundhouse, north on Railroad Avenue until Douglas Avenue, west on Douglas until 12th Street, north of 12th Street until National, west on National and Bridge Street and ending at Plaza Park. For more information visit, www.lvcowboyreunion.com.

For Dolores Montaño, 1953 was a special time in her life that she will never forget. Montaño, now 82, is the 1953 Cowboys Reunion Rodeo Queen. To this day, the mild-mannered cowgirl has vivid memories of that year.

“It was wonderful, I loved it,” Montaño said. “I wish I was still that young.”

ALBUQUERQUE — All Albuquerque Fire Department employees in emergency situations will undergo additional training after a dispatcher told a 911 caller trying to help a teenage shooting victim to “deal with it yourself.”

The department will start giving crisis intervention training to all firefighters and dispatchers next week, Fire Chief David Downey told reporters Wednesday. A department spokeswoman said she was not sure if some employees had previously received the training.

Monday, Aug. 2 — New Mexico oldtimers rode buggies in a Springer parade Saturday, when a miniature wagon train on the Santa Fe Trail came through town. Riders in the horse-and-buggy vehicle were Tom and Mrs. McGrath and Matt McAllister of Springer, and Narciso Abreu of Springer. Mr. McGrath is 78 years old; McAllister is 102, and Abreu is 80.

Mora will be a busy place this weekend as the annual Fiestas de Santiago y Santa Ana will be taking place. Hundreds are expected to partake in this year’s fiestas.

This year’s event includes a parade along NM 518 on Saturday starting at 10 a.m. at Helping Hands. It will be followed by plenty of entertainment behind the buildings housing the county offices Plenty of vendors are expected at this year’s fiestas. They will be selling food, toys and other items. Public restrooms will be available near the entertainment behind the county offices.

Another change of leadership at New Mexico Highlands University’s athletic department has marked an offseason that already has seen change in the form of new coaches beginning work in a couple of major programs.

After scarcely a year at the helm, Jeff Falkner has left the NMHU athletic director’s position to accept the equivalent post at California State-Dominguez Hills, a Division II institution in Carson, Calif.